{"id":340396,"date":"2022-11-11T00:44:18","date_gmt":"2022-11-11T06:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=340396"},"modified":"2022-11-11T00:45:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T06:15:58","slug":"delhis-air-quality-slips-back-to-very-poor-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/delhis-air-quality-slips-back-to-very-poor-category\/","title":{"rendered":"Delhi’s air quality slips back to ‘very poor’ category"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Delhi’s air quality deteriorated to the ‘very poor’ category on Friday, after marginal improvement over the last few days, with a layer of smog shrouding several parts of the city.<\/p>\n

The city recorded a minimum temperature of 14.6 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD).<\/p>\n

The national capital’s overall Air Quality Index (AQI) stood at 331 at 9 am, Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) data showed.<\/p>\n

An AQI between zero and 50 is considered ‘good’, 51 and 100 ‘satisfactory’, 101 and 200 ‘moderate’, 201 and 300 ‘poor’, 301 and 400 ‘very poor’, and 401 and 500 ‘severe’.<\/p>\n

The relative humidity was 79 per cent at 8:30 pm, the IMD said.<\/p>\n

The weather department has forecast mainly clear skies during the day. The maximum temperature is expected to settle at 29 degrees Celsius.<\/p>\n

The Delhi government had on Monday decided to reopen primary classes from November 9 and revoke the order asking 50 per cent of its staff to work from home in view of an “improvement” in the city’s air quality over the last few days.<\/p>\n

The Commission for Air Quality Management had said on Thursday that it will review the air pollution situation in Delhi on Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Delhi’s air quality deteriorated to the ‘very poor’ category on Friday, after marginal improvement over the last few days, with a layer of smog shrouding several parts of the city. The city recorded a minimum temperature of 14.6 degrees Celsius, a notch above normal, according to the India Meteorological Department (IMD). The national capital’s overall […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":340076,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36,2014],"tags":[15675,15534,15651],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340396"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340396"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":340399,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340396\/revisions\/340399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/340076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}